Useful Bodies

Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8018-8968-4
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 328 g

Though notoriously associated with Germany, human experimentation in the name of science has been practiced in other countries, as well, both before and after the Nazi era. The use of unwitting or unwilling subjects in experiments designed to test the effects of radiation and disease on the human body emerged at the turn of the twentieth century, when the rise of the modern, coercive state and the professionalization of medical science converged. Useful Bodies explores the intersection of government power and medical knowledge in revealing studies of human experimentation—germ warfare and jaundice tests in Great Britain; radiation, malaria, and hepatitis experiments in the U.S.; and nuclear fallout trials in Australia. These examples of medical abuse illustrate the extent to which living human bodies have been "useful" to democratic states and emphasize the need for intense scrutiny and regulation to prevent future violations.

Contributors: Brian Balmer, University College London; Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald, University of Wisconsin; Rodney A. Hayward, University of Michigan; Joel D. Howell, University of Michigan; Margaret Humphreys, Duke University; David S. Jones, Massachusetts General Hospital; Robert L. Martensen, Tulane University School of Medicine; Glenn Mitchell, University of Wollongong; Jenny Stanton, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Gilbert Whittemore, independent scholar/attorney, Boston

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodman, Jordan

Mcelligott, Anthony

Marks, Lara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Making Human Bodies Useful: Historicizing Medical Experiments in the Twentieth Century
Part I: What Is a Human Experiment?
Chapter 2. Using the Population Body to Protect the National Body: Germ Warfare Tests in the United Kingom after World War II
Chapter 3. Whose Body? Which Disease? Studying Malaria while Treating Neurosyphilis
Part II: Who Experiments?
Chapter 4. Human Radiation Experiments and the Foundation of Medical Physics at the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, 1937–1962
Chapter 5. "I Have Been on Tenterhooks": Wartime Medical Research Council Jaundice Committee Experiments
Chapter 6. See an Atomic Blast and Spread the Word: Indoctrination at Ground Zero
Part III: Whose Body?
Chapter 7. Injecting Comatose Patients with Uranium: America's Overlapping Wars Against Communism and Cancer in the 1950's
Chapter 8. Writing Wilowbrook, Reading Willowbrook: The Recounting of a Medical Experiment

Über Autor(innen)

Mcelligott, Anthony
Anthony McElligott is founding professor of history at the University of Limerick and director of the Centre for Historical Research.

Goodman, Jordan
Jordan Goodman is an honorary research fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London.

Jordan Goodman is an honorary research fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. Anthony McElligott is founding professor of history at the University of Limerick and director of the Centre for Historical Research. Lara Marks is a visiting senior research associate at Cambridge University and an honorary senior lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.